we have had a lovely last couple of days with the church service and the top ten sing along. We have had Christmas maths problems, design challenges and learnt new games.

Have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year.

This week in maths we have been revising different times, both analogue and digital. In Literacy we have been consolidating our learning on full stops, question marks and exclamation marks. For outdoor learning we made frosty snowmen sing the frost and natural materials. we used our group working skills, cooperation and creativity.

We had a special message from Santa asking us to help design science  experiments to find out the melting. boiling and freezing point of water. we intend to carry out our experiments next week.

We have also enjoyed watching the Primary 1 Nativity which was brilliant and our Festive Friday, making cards.

With Miss Allan some of us learnt about Roman numerals all the way up to 15! We also learned about how useful numeracy and math’s are in the real world for many different careers. We found out about how coordinates were invented by a scientist and a spider on the ceiling.  For ICT we used the Ipads and the app Sketches School to do Christmas drawing. we used a black outline and used colours to fill. We also looked at the Christmas Nativity story and discussed why the angels and shepherds were so special.

We enjoyed our festive Friday today. We made joke books and Christmas cards for the local community which we can’t wait to share. We also had our committees and practiced some Christmas songs for the end of term service.

This week we have enjoyed working together to create a Christmas display for the hall. We chose to make Christmas trees and snowflakes.

For outdoor learning we used our knowledge of symmetry and patterns to create natural pictures. we cut interestingly shaped leaves in half, and using a mirror to help, we drew the other side and copied the patterns. they turned out very cool.

We have been learning about the months of the year. WE are all very good at ordering the months of the year and some of us were using calendars to record information.

We have been learning about being resilient. we made graphs to plot how we felt in different situations. everyone’s graphs were different showing as we all feel things differently. we also made rivers of life to illustrate our up days and down days. Finally we made resilience capes to record different coping strategies for down days.

 

Another busy couple of days in Primary 2/3. In literacy we have been learning about exclamation marks. we played fun games to practice when to use them and looked at funny pictures to help us create our own exclamation sentences.

For outdoor learning we created Rangoli patterns with chalk and filled them in with natural resources. we thought about the different shapes we could use, how to make repeated patterns and the types of colours. We all really enjoyed this activity.

We have also been scientists this week. we have been exploring the different states of water (liquid, solid and gas). we took some time to explore the different states and used observation journals to describe their form.

Thank you to all who attended the Newport Christmas Lights Switch on. The children were fabulous and they all had a wonderful time.

Today was a very busy day! We loved welcoming so many parents and carers into our shared learning this morning to help us make some Mondrian-inspired Windsocks. We have been learning about the use of vertical and horizontal lines and primary colours which we put to use in our creations. In maths, we continued with capacity and had lots of fun measuring sand and water to make different weights and experimenting with how much different containers could hold. In Literacy we were working on our comprehension skills and read some interesting texts about dragons. We took some time to practice our assembly which we are looking forward to sharing with you on Monday.

This week we continued our learning around question marks. We played lots of games which helped us to learn how to ask questions and about different question words. WE also had opportunities to write questions for some very strange pictures. We created bonfire natural art in outdoor learning where we used creativity, problem solving and communication skills. We started looking at capacity of water in math’s. In science we were learning about different states of matter, solids, liquids and gasses and we played some games to help us visualise what atoms might look like in these different states. Art was tricky this week! We made optical illusions, we created waves but only used diagonal ang vertical lines. we used rulers to create the lines, cutting skills and lots of careful following of instructions to create or beautiful art.

We have been very busy in Primary 2/3! For outdoor learning we used sticks to make skeletons. We used a picture to help us and tried to get the scale correct. We used lots of skills as well as our maths skills, such as, creativity, problem solving and teamwork.

In literacy we have been continuing to learn about question marks. We played lots of Halloween themed games where you had to ask questions and we wrote down some of the questions we generated.

 

For art we created spooky pictures using shape and colour mixing to create a colour gradient. We are very please with the outcome!

 

For Science we were learning about atoms and how they make up everything. We played a fun game where we pretended to be atoms. We had to join up with others’ and make different objects.

 

We started learning about Yoga in PE. it was very relaxing after a busy week. We followed a Halloween story and tried lots of new poses.

A great first week back! We have been starting to learn about question marks and where they should go in our writing. The p3’s have also started generating some questions.

In maths we were using scales to measure different weights and make comparisons.

For outdoor learning we practiced our mapping skills. We had a go at drawing maps of the nursery garden using symbols. it was tricky to illustrate everything in the correct place. we then used our maps to hide and find treasure. It was lots of fun!

 

This week we have been learning about connectives in literacy to help make our writing more interesting. We got to do blether stations and build roads with connective for our cars to drive over and we have found some interesting online games to help us practice.

In outdoor learning we went on a minibeast hunt and were surprised at how many different types we found. Dark damp places were the best spots to look.

In PE we were playing games of netball. our passing skills are really improving but we want to improve our marking skills.

We have also been learning about using cool responses when we come across challenges in the playground or classroom. We have been practicing and role playing our strong responses and thinking about different ways to resolve any issues.